“We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.”

Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.

There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.

Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.

If i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.

A change of work is the best rest.

There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.

You see, but you do not observe.

It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.

Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.

We can’t command our love, but we can our actions.

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

The game is afoot.

Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.

I was in the world of business for 25 years. If you didn’t balance your budget, you went out of business.

April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.

I had no balance in my life. I was this one person onstage and this person offstage, who really didn’t know much about living.

A knowledge of the true age of the Earth and of the fossil record makes it impossible for any balanced intellect to believe in the literal truth of every part of the Bible in the way that fundamentalists do.

If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.

For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.

Sooner and later you will see great changes made, dreadful horrors and vengeances. For as the Moon is thus led by its angel, the heavens draw near to the Balance.

The end of the year! I draw the balance. Inquiry of conscience and request to the Spirit for progress and maturity.